Strength 9

Ouma also did not easily allow her to accomplish that. There, he displayed the technique of the Sword Emperor of Wind. He abandoned the number of strikes, and swung Ryuuzume widely. He wrung his muscles to the limit, squeezed, adding a force to the point of twisting the joints on his spine, to the point of twisting his body to face away from his opponent. Of course, Stella would further close in during that gap, he understood it. She would probably deflect away any amount of those slashes with no weight behind anyway. In that case, he would bet everything on the fastest single strike he had. Preparing his sword from the limit of his swing was for that sake. What he was about to release was the godspeed sword passed down in Kyokujitsu Isshin Ryuu. Naturally, every muscle in his entire body was used, it even used the rebound of the joints and bones in his body by returning his posture from its twisted position to the original one to accelerate, it was exactly a sword released with his entire body and spirit. There was no preparation or counter after releasing that one strike. It was just speed alone was principle. Cut alone was justice.

That was truly──

“Kyokujitsu Isshin Ryuu・Jin no Kyoku. ──Amaterasu!”[8]

“............!”

The white blade swung from the position after his body twisted to the limit fell onto Stella without a sound. Despite just one strike, different from Ikki’s Blade Steal, Ouma’s Amaterasu, which had truly reached Twin-Wings’s territory, exceeded the limit of reaction even for Stella with dragon’s power dwelling inside her, Ryuuzume cut Stella’s body diagonally. Blood sprayed into the air. He felt the feedback of Ryuuzume cutting flesh and bones squarely. It did not reach the organs, but it was probably a sufficient strike to dull her movements.